If you’re searching for a stunning evergreen shrub that brings elegant beauty and intoxicating fragrance to your New Zealand garden, daphne x burkwoodii somerset deserves serious consideration. This refined selection of the Burkwood Daphne group offers a harmonious combination of dense, compact form, glossy evergreen foliage, and clusters of scented pink and white flowers that appear reliably through late winter into early spring. Daphne x burkwoodii somerset is a hybrid that adapts beautifully to a range of garden styles, thriving in borders, containers, and sheltered garden beds where both its looks and perfume can be most appreciated.

Viburnum burkwoodii is an evergreen shrub that features lovely foliage and showy flowers. Pink flower buds open to reveal showy clusters of fragrant, white-pink flowers during spring. The glossy, green foliage provides a great backdrop to the flowers as it grows to 2.5 m tall and the same wide. Viburnum burkwoodii is commonly included in a mixed planting, used in coastal gardens, planted as a backdrop for smaller plants, or included anywhere the flowering can be appreciated.
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Using fertiliser for acid loving plants is important for plants such as Camellias, Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Daphne’s, Gardenia’s, and Hydrangea’s who all prefer an acidic soil. The Plant Company has specifically blended fertilisers to cater for such plants that also reduces the risk of injury to plants through being applied too heavily. Our blend has a NPK rating of 4.1:6.4:5 with sulphur levels at 19.7 and contains a mix of essential trace elements.
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